Hopefully, she wouldn't walk into anything compromising between him and Killian. Perhaps he should warn the pirate when he came over. He was after privacy.
"Ice is stillness," he said, letting his fingers frost over. "It's rage as well but not passionate rage. This is cold, the sort that allows you to kill with no regrets and remorse."
That was a feeling Hawke was familiar with. He felt it when the ogre killed Bethany. When the blood mage killed his mother. When Andres betrayed him. He could be cold. "It can soothe sore muscles or numb pain but it's more the cause than the cure."